“California’s electricity prices are already 50%
higher than the national average.”
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THE LA RAZA CONTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE IN
MEXIFORNIA JUST PASSED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY.
MORE THAN HALF OF ALL JOBS IN CA ARE HELD BY ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL
SECURITY NUMBERS. THE STATE PUTS OUT $20 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO
ILLEGALS! OBAMA HAS SUED AZ TO STOP E-VERIFY THERE TO BUY THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES.
“Just like California, the
federal government is, as Kotkin put it, “run for the very rich,
the very poor, and the public employees.”
Obama’s ideal
government: California
In a must-read Wall Street
Journal interview with Joel Kotkin, the demographer explains the disastrous
economic policies that have caused almost more 4 million people to leave the
state than have arrived from other states. He explains:
“The new regime” — his name
for progressive apparatchiks who run California’s government — ”wants to
destroy the essential reason why people move to California in order to protect
their own lifestyles.”
Housing is merely one front
of what he calls the “progressive war on the middle class.” Another is the
cap-and-trade law AB32, which will raise the cost of energy and drive out
manufacturing jobs without making even a dent in global carbon emissions. Then
there are the renewable portfolio standards, which mandate that a third of the
state’s energy come from renewable sources like wind and the sun by 2020. California’s electricity prices are already
50% higher than the national average.
Oh, and don’t forget the
$100 billion bullet train. Mr. Kotkin calls the runaway-cost train “classic
California.” “Where [Brown] with the state going bankrupt is even thinking
about an expenditure like this is beyond comprehension. When the schools are
falling apart, when the roads are falling apart, the bridges are unsafe, the
state economy is in free fall. We’re still doing much worse than the rest of
the country, we’ve got this growing permanent welfare class, and high-speed
rail is going to solve this?”
Sound familiar? This is Obamanomics. Kotkin also points
to the hyper-progressive tax code, on top of which the governor wants to add a
millionaire’s tax (actually on those making more than $250,000): “It’s really
going to hit the small business owners and the young family that’s trying to
accumulate enough to raise a family, maybe send their kids to private school.
It’ll kick them in the teeth.”
The similarities between
the California Kotkin describes and the federal government are is hard to miss.
Just like California, the federal
government is, as Kotkin put it, “run
for the very rich, the very poor, and the public employees.” In the
category of the “rich” is the donor-crony capitalist class with access to
politicians who can use the taxpayers’ money to push unfeasible projects.
In California, as in the Obama administration, the scam du jour is
“green energy.” Kotkin hits the nail on the head when he says that “green
energy doesn’t create enough energy! And it drives up the price of energy,
which then drives out other things. . . . You see the great tragedy of
California is that we have all this oil and gas [but] we won’t use it.”
Kotkin, a Democrat who
voted for Gov. Jerry Brown (D), is representative of the target audience around
the country for Republicans in November. He understands that from tax to energy
to spending policies we are heading down a road in which innovation and upward
mobility is stifled, crony capitalism pushes out real entrepreneurship, and
public-employee unions (in schools and throughout the federal bureaucracy)
feather their own nests at the expense of taxpayers. These voters understand
that the result is a rotten economy, high unemployment and financial stress on
the middle class. (Mitt Romney was right: The poor at least have the safety
net.)
In essence the question
Romney is putting to the country is this: Do you want the country to be more
like California (but with worse weather)? If the answer is “no,” President
Obama, who favor each and every one of the flawed policies Kotkin rails
against, has to go.
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The
Great California Exodus: driving the middle class out of the (Golden State)
The Great California Exodus: driving
the middle class out of the Golden State
Joel Kotkin: The Great California Exodus
A leading U.S. demographer and 'Truman Democrat' talks about what is driving
the middle class out of the Golden State.
By ALLYSIA FINLEY
'California is God's best moment," says Joel Kotkin. "It's the best
place in the world to live." Or at least it used to be.
Mr. Kotkin, one of the nation's premier demographers, left his native New York
City in 1971 to enroll at the University of California, Berkeley. The state was
a far-out paradise for hipsters who had grown up listening to the Mamas &
the Papas' iconic "California Dreamin'" and the Beach Boys' "California
Girls." But it also attracted young, ambitious people "who had a lot
of dreams, wanted to build big companies." Think Intel, Apple and
Hewlett-Packard.
Now, however, the Golden State's fastest-growing entity is government and its
biggest product is red tape. The first thing that comes to many American minds
when you mention California isn't Hollywood or tanned girls on a beach, but
Greece. Many progressives in California take that as a compliment since Greeks
are ostensibly happier. But as Mr. Kotkin notes, Californians are increasingly
pursuing happiness elsewhere.
Nearly four million more people have left the Golden State in the last two
decades than have come from other states. This is a sharp reversal from the
1980s, when 100,000 more Americans were settling in California each year than
were leaving. According to Mr. Kotkin, most of those leaving are between the
ages of 5 and 14 or 34 to 45. In other words, young families.
The scruffy-looking urban studies professor at Chapman University in Orange,
Calif., has been studying and writing on demographic and geographic trends for
30 years. Part of California's dysfunction, he says, stems from state and local
government restrictions on development. These policies have artificially
limited housing supply and put a premium on real estate in coastal regions.
"Basically, if you don't own a piece of Facebook or Google and you haven't
robbed a bank and don't have rich parents, then your chances of being able to
buy a house or raise a family in the Bay Area or in most of coastal California
is pretty weak," says Mr. Kotkin.
While many middle-class families have moved inland, those regions don't have
the same allure or amenities as the coast. People might as well move to Nevada
or Texas, where housing and everything else is cheaper and there's no income
tax.
And things will only get worse in the coming years as Democratic Gov. Jerry
Brown and his green cadre implement their "smart growth" plans to
cram the proletariat into high-density housing. "What I find reprehensible
beyond belief is that the people pushing [high-density housing] themselves live
in single-family homes and often drive very fancy cars, but want everyone else
to live like my grandmother did in Brownsville in Brooklyn in the 1920s,"
Mr. Kotkin declares.
"The new regime"--his name for progressive apparatchiks who run
California's government--"wants to destroy the essential reason why people
move to California in order to protect their own lifestyles."
Housing is merely one front of what he calls the "progressive war on the
middle class." Another is the cap-and-trade law AB32, which will raise the
cost of energy and drive out manufacturing jobs without making even a dent in
global carbon emissions. Then there are the renewable portfolio standards,
which mandate that a third of the state's energy come from renewable sources
like wind and the sun by 2020. California's electricity prices are already 50%
higher than the national average.
Oh, and don't forget the $100 billion bullet train. Mr. Kotkin calls the runaway-cost
train "classic California." "Where [Brown] with the state going
bankrupt is even thinking about an expenditure like this is beyond
comprehension. When the schools are falling apart, when the roads are falling
apart, the bridges are unsafe, the state economy is in free fall. We're still
doing much worse than the rest of the country, we've got this growing permanent
welfare class, and high-speed rail is going to solve this?"
Mr. Kotkin describes himself as an old-fashioned Truman Democrat. In fact, he
voted for Mr. Brown--who previously served as governor, secretary of state and
attorney general--because he believed Mr. Brown "was interesting and
thought outside the box."
But "Jerry's been a big disappointment," Mr. Kotkin says. "I've
known Jerry for 35 years, and he's smart, but he just can't seem to be a
paradigm breaker. And of course, it's because he really believes in this green
stuff."
In the governor's dreams, green jobs will replace all of the "tangible
jobs" that the state's losing in agriculture, manufacturing, warehousing
and construction. But "green energy doesn't create enough energy!"
Mr. Kotkin exclaims. "And it drives up the price of energy, which then
drives out other things." Notwithstanding all of the subsidies the state
lavishes on renewables, green jobs only make up about 2% of California's
private-sector work force--no more than they do in Texas.
Of course, there are plenty of jobs to be had in energy, just not the type the
new California regime wants. An estimated 25 billion barrels of oil are sitting
untapped in the vast Monterey and Bakersfield shale deposits. "You see the
great tragedy of California is that we have all this oil and gas, we won't use
it," Mr. Kotkin says. "We have the richest farm land in the world,
and we're trying to strangle it." He's referring to how water restrictions
aimed at protecting the delta smelt fish are endangering Central Valley
farmers.
Meanwhile, taxes are harming the private economy. According to the Tax
Foundation, California has the 48th-worst business tax climate. Its income tax
is steeply progressive. Millionaires pay a top rate of 10.3%, the third-highest
in the country. But middle-class workers--those who earn more than $48,000--pay
a top rate of 9.3%, which is higher than what millionaires pay in 47 states.
And Democrats want to raise taxes even more. Mind you, the November ballot
initiative that Mr. Brown is spearheading would primarily hit those whom
Democrats call "millionaires" (i.e., people who make more than
$250,000 a year). Some Republicans have warned that it will cause a millionaire
march out of the state, but Mr. Kotkin says that "people who are at the
very high end of the food chain, they're still going to be in Napa. They're
still going to be in Silicon Valley. They're still going to be in West
L.A."
That said, "It's really going to hit the small business owners and the
young family that's trying to accumulate enough to raise a family, maybe send
their kids to private school. It'll kick them in the teeth."
A worker in Wichita might not consider those earning $250,000 a year middle
class, but "if you're a guy working for a Silicon Valley company and
you're married and you're thinking about having your first kid, and your family
makes 250-k a year, you can't buy a closet in the Bay Area," Mr. Kotkin
says. "But for 250-k a year, you can live pretty damn well in Salt Lake
City. And you might be able to send your kids to public schools and own a
three-bedroom, four-bath house."
According to Mr. Kotkin, these upwardly mobile families are fleeing in droves.
As a result, California is turning into a two-and-a-half-class society. On top
are the "entrenched incumbents" who inherited their wealth or came to
California early and made their money. Then there's a shrunken middle class of
public employees and, miles below, a permanent welfare class. As it stands
today, about 40% of Californians don't pay any income tax and a quarter are on
Medicaid.
It's "a very scary political dynamic," he says. "One day
somebody's going to put on the ballot, let's take every penny over $100,000 a
year, and you'll get it through because there's no real restraint. What you've
done by exempting people from paying taxes is that they feel no responsibility.
That's certainly a big part of it.
And the welfare recipients, he emphasizes, "aren't leaving. Why would
they? They get much better benefits in California or New York than if they go
to Texas. In Texas the expectation is that people work."
California used to be more like Texas--a jobs magnet. What happened? For one,
says the demographer, Californians are now voting more based on social issues
and less on fiscal ones than they did when Ronald Reagan was governor 40 years
ago. Environmentalists are also more powerful than they used to be. And Mr.
Brown facilitated the public-union takeover of the statehouse by allowing state
workers to collectively bargain during his first stint as governor in 1977.
Mr. Kotkin also notes that demographic changes are playing a role. As
progressive policies drive out moderate and conservative members of the middle
class, California's politics become even more left-wing. It's a classic case of
natural selection, and increasingly the only ones fit to survive in California
are the very rich and those who rely on government spending. In a nutshell,
"the state is run for the very rich, the very poor, and the public
employees."
So if California's no longer the Golden land of opportunity for middle-class
dreamers, what is?
Mr. Kotkin lists four "growth corridors": the Gulf Coast, the Great
Plains, the Intermountain West, and the Southeast. All of these regions have
lower costs of living, lower taxes, relatively relaxed regulatory environments,
and critical natural resources such as oil and natural gas.
Take Salt Lake City. "Almost all of the major tech companies have moved
stuff to Salt Lake City." That includes Twitter, Adobe, eBay and Oracle.
Then there's Texas, which is on a mission to steal California's tech hegemony.
Apple just announced that it's building a $304 million campus and adding 3,600
jobs in Austin. Facebook established operations there last year, and eBay plans
to add 1,000 new jobs there too.
Even Hollywood is doing more of its filming on the Gulf Coast. "New
Orleans is supposedly going to pass New York as the second-largest film center.
They have great incentives, and New Orleans is the best bargain for urban
living in the United States. It's got great food, great music, and it's
inexpensive."
What about the Midwest and the Rust Belt? Can they recover from their manufacturing
losses?
"What those areas have is they've got a good work ethic," Mr. Kotkin
says. "There's an established skill base for industry. They're very
affordable, and they've got some nice places to live. Indianapolis has become a
very nice city." He concedes that such places will have a hard time
eclipsing California or Texas because they're not as well endowed by nature.
But as the Golden State is proving, natural endowments do not guarantee
permanent prosperity.
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BOOK: MEXIFORNIA – THE SHATTERING OF THE
AMERICAN DREAM WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION
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"Victor
Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in California's Central Valley to
this indictment of multiculturalism and mass immigration." -- Mark
Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies
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READER’S REVIEW (source: AMAZON)
If you don't
understand something or disagree with a concept then the best way to conceal
your ignorance or discredit the idea is to call it "racist". Dr.
Hanson did not have to go very far out on a limb to make the point that non
assimilation of Chicanos to American culture is divisive and destructive - and
that it is the new immigrant that is failing to adapt. Great book, on point and
very timely.
*Starred Review*
Classics professor Hanson is also, like
generations of his family before him, a fruit farmer in California's central
valley. He has employed immigrants, seen them flood his community during the
last 30 years of mass flight from Mexico, and endured the crime associated with
illegal immigrants. Hanson is immensely sympathetic to poor Mexicans, however,
and the most powerful chapter here outlines the harried life of the illegal
alien. But he hates to see the ordered culture in which he grew up drowned by
an alien inundation whose undeserving beneficiaries are Mexico's kleptocratic
rulers, for whom an open border is a safety valve expelling the potential for
democratic change. The four solutions to the mess that Hanson enumerates
include continuing de facto open borders but insisting on rapid acculturation;
patrolling the border effectively and reducing legal immigration; imposing
"sweeping restrictions on immigration" and ending Mexican chauvinism
in the U.S.; and allowing present policies to make California increasingly
mirror an unreformed Mexico. Hanson thinks that the U.S. "still need not
do everything right" to prevent social collapse in the Southwest
and that the totalitarian uniformity of valueless mass culture may soften that
collapse. He also sees very clearly what has brought this crisis on: the
American globalist ideology's lust for cheap labor and emphasis on "raw
inclusiveness" instead of "standards and taste."
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Review
"Hanson's 'Mexifornia' is that rare book
that combines scholarship with personal experience to provide genuine insight
into a complex issue." -- Linda Chavez, author of An Unlikely
Conservative
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"Victor Davis Hanson brings a
lifetime of experience in California's Central Valley to this indictment of
multiculturalism and mass immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for
Immigration Studies
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Hardcover: 150 pages
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Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (July 25, 2003)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1893554732
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ISBN-13: 978-1893554733
ALL REVIEWS ARE FROM AMAZON.com
REVIEW 1
This review is
from: Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Hardcover)
This
book shows how Mexico sends their poor to America to work, so they don't have
to improve their own country, and how we use these people for cheap labor so
that we can sell things for less. It's a deal made between the two countries.
The trouble is, it's not what American citizens want. The "servants of the
people", the representatives, are not listening to us, so it's always
exciting to read something that really tells it like it is.
This book is written from the viewpoint of someone who actually
lives with these Mexican immigrants. The rich people who want to use them in
their businesses for cheap labor don't live with them; the liberal elites who
push for them to get amnesty don't live with them. This guy lives among them,
and knows the problems first hand, and as I suspected, there are many, and
they're not pretty.
He writes very bluntly about the problems, but not without
sympathy for the Mexican immigrants whose own country won't take care of them.
With all the new books out and the discussions going on about legal and illegal
immigration, and what the American people want, I'm hoping that these problems
will be solved. This book is one of the best on the subject, because it is
written from a viewpoint of personal experience.
*
REVIEW 2
Victor
Hanson combines scholarship (Professor at Cal State) with personal experience
(life long resident and farmer in central CA. who has Mexican-American family
and friends) to present a thoughtful look at the illegal Mexican immigration
crisis. Hanson argues that the reason for this crisis is that both ends of the
political spectrum have vested interests in continuing the unabated entry of
illegal Mexicans. Republicans wish to placate business interests with cheap labor
and Democrats hope for a future electoral base. Hanson further explains that
this wave is not like the earlier waves of Polish, Jewish, or Italian
immigration which was of a fixed duration and where the connection of the new
immigrant to the Homeland was more thoroughly severed.
This book is well written and to the point (approx. 140 pages). I have also
seen Victor Hanson on several political talk shows. He is well spoken and mild
mannered which is a welcome relief from the cacophonous diatribe we too often
get on cable news channels.
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REVIEW 3
As
one who shares the author's ethnic,cultural and geographical heritage, I
thought Hanson did a marvelous job of assessing California's major social
issue, and one of America's primary problems. Like Hanson, I was born and
reared in Fresno County, albeit some 25 miles from his native Selma. I can
attest to the accuracy of his description of Selma and the Central Valley in
the 1950's.
As a child, my associates included Hispanics; as a teenager
working in the fig and peach orchards, my fellow workers were Hispanic. During
my professional career, I have hired and promoted many Hispanics.
Hanson's Scandinavian ancestors (from Sweden) and mine (from
Denmark) came to America legally and without speaking English, but they
succeeded--without bilingual classes, welfare, government subsidies, or that
phenomenon known as "affirmative action", which is being rapidly
unmasked as nothing, more or less, than "reverse discrimination".
Hanson deftly exposes the race industry as an amalgam of organizations and
individuals who are quick to attack the Anglo for any slight, either real or
imagined, but who, in the long run, seem not to do much for those whom they
purport to serve.
As a criminologist, I am well aware of the violence committed by
Hispanic Gangs, and the fact that those gangsters who do not wind up in the
morgue soon become expensive inmates in our overcrowded prison system, costing
taxpayers some $25k per year each. I am equally aware of the many outstanding
Hispanic officers, prosecutors, and judges with whom I've worked.
Hanson has eloquently described the failure of our educational
programs to work toward an assimilated America, as well as the failure of the
"separatists" in the race industry.
The one failure which, to my surprise, he did not identify is that
of our elected officials who establish public policy. When Hanson and I were
youngsters/young men in the Central Valley, the politicians seemed to act in
the best interests of their constituencies. Today,by and large, our politicians
have little integrity, but rather pander incessantly to special interests
which, in turn, provide them with campaign funds, endorsements,and precinct workers.It
is common knowledge that, in Sacramento, legislative votes are "for
sale" almost daily. Until we can restore some integrity among our public
officials, we will not move toward a better California--better for Hispanics,
Anglos, African Americans, Asians, and all others!
Except for his failure to discuss the lack of integrity among many
of our elected officials, Hanson has done an admirable job. Mexifornia should
be on the "must read" list of all who are concerned about the future
of Californians, nothwithstanding the color of their skins!
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DICK LAMM, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
REVIEW 4
We know Dick Lamm as the former
Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant.
Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC,
filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant
college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest
book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and
illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march
across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a
stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he
described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said,
"If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich,
then let's destroy! America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history
has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great
civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all
great nations commit suicide.'"
"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America,
turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country."
History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism
of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an
individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be
bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The
histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are
histories of turmoil, tension, and
tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of
national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence.
Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion.
France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and
encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of
belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I
would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are
due solely to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much
effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin
Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of
our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not
by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated
ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we! are left with only
tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would
encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would
replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important
to ensure that we have
various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather
than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least
educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and
antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50%
dropout rate from high school."
"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and
business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic
identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all
minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I
would start a grievance industry blaming all
minority failure on the majority population."
"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and
promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would
stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are
mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each
other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical
precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look
at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race;
they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same
gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia,
threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to
overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that
nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From
many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus'
instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."
"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to
talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word
similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and
paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and
debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established
multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the! doctrine of
'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.
I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America,
it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and
ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound
silence followed. Finally he said,. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson
Davis's book "Mexifornia." His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan
to destroy America. If you feel America. deserves to be destroyed, don't read
that book."
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above
every attendee at the conference Every American in that room knew that
everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet
pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation
of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures
that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate
'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations
create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to
date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George
Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in
the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery,"
and "Ignorance is strength."
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference
that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and
worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three
years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its
path, especially The American Dream.
IF YOU THINK IT’S TIME TO END THE
MEXICAN INVASION, OCCUPATION and EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN WELFARE AND PRISON
SYSTEMS…. STOP VOTING FOR LA RAZA PARTY, OR LA RAZA DEMS!
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FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called "The
Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity
chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in
redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in
San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the
Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can
you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who
called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media
have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and
marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that
the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars
and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
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Here are 15 things you should know about "The
Race":
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15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for
illegal aliens.
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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts
for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens
and law-abiding legal immigrants.
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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes cooperative
immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.
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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the
southern border.
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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
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10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's
tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal
aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense
voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11
national security measures at every turn.
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6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary
Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to
Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S.
English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
"The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised
the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding
the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
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4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear
campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV
and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the
airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up
their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president
Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated,
even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist
charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in
federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz.,
the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in
St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose
principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain,
we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain
in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White
way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually
lead to our own destruction."
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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC
shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and
the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor
Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
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The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La
Raza.
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LA RAZA – “THE (MEXICAN) RACE”….
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
1126 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
202-785 1670
Get on La Raza’s email list to find
out what this fascist party is doing to expand the Mexican occupation. NCLR.org
FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN
WELFARE STATE, AND MEXICAN SUPREMACY
LA RAZA is the virulently racist
political party for ILLEGALS (only Mexicans) and the corporations that benefit
from illegals, and the employers of illegals. IT IS ILLEGAL TO HIRE AN ILLEGAL.
LA RAZA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY
of AMERICA and has contempt for AMERICANS, AMERICAN LAWS, AMERICAN LANGUAGE,
AMERICAN BORDERS, and the AMERICAN FLAG.
However LA RAZA does like the
AMERICAN WELFARE SYSTEM. The welfare system in the country is so good that
Mexico has dumped 38 million of their poor, illiterate , criminal and
frequently pregnant over our border.
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FAIRUS.org
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
REFORM
FAIR CHARACTERIZES THE OBAMA, AND LA
RAZA DEMS PLAN FOR AMNESTY AS FOLLOWS:
That's
why, throughout 2009 FAIR has been tracking every move the administration and
Congress has made to undermine our immigration laws, reward illegal aliens and
burden taxpayers.
- Foot-dragging
on proven methods of immigration law enforcement including border
structures and E-Verify.
- Appointment
of several illegal alien advocates to important administration posts.
- Watering
down of the 287(g) program to limit local law in their own jurisdictions.
- Health care
reform that mandates a “public option” for newly-arrived legal immigrants
as well as illegal aliens.
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THE
SITUATION OF LA RAZA SUPREMACY IS MUCH WORSE THAN THIS AUTHOR COVERS IN HIS
ARTICLE ON DREAM ACTS.
THERE
ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) COUNTIES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY,
WHERE HALF OF ALL JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.
LEAD BY LA RAZA SUPREMACIST LIKE GIL CEDILLO, THE STATE PASSED A LAW QUICKLY
SIGNED BY LA RAZA DEM JERRY BROWN (ELECTED BY ILLEGALS) THAT MAKES IT ILLEGAL
FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY.
LOS
ANGELES COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION TO ILLEGALS ON WELFARE (source: JUDICIAL
WATCH). NOT A SINGLE LEGAL VOTED TO BE MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING CENTER, OR
WELFARE LOOTING STATE!
ONE-THIRD
OF THE DRIVERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE ILLEGALS DRIVING ILLEGALLY WITHOUT LICENSES,
INSURANCE AND FREQUENTLY IN CARS REGISTERED IN NOMINEE’S NAMES TO AVOID BEING
IMPOUNDED WHEN CAUGHT. LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GIL CEDILLO AND THE LA RAZA FACTION
IN SACRAMENTO ARE PUSHING TO END THAT. HEY. THEY’RE ILLEGALS, INVITED HERE TO
KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THE PAYMASTERS OF THE LA RAZA DEMS, LIKE CONGRESSWOMAN
ZOE LOFGREN. NEARLY 95% OF THE CAMPAIGN BRIBES THIS ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS,
CHAIN MIGRATION, AMNESTY OR AT LEAST CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, ARE FROM EMPLOYERS
THAT BENEFIT FROM SOME OF THIS STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE “CHEAP” MEX LABOR.
WHO
BENEFITS?
LA
RAZA DEM, AND ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN
HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL, JUST MILES FROM HER $16 MILLION DOLLAR
WAR PROFITEER’S MANSION!
LA
RAZA DEM, AND ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS
AND NO E-VERIFY CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER RESTAURANTS AND HER ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY.
BARBARA
BOXER, ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN CA HISTORY, WAS REELECTED BY
ILLEGALS BASED ON HER PLATFORM OF CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT AND NO E-VERIFY!
NOT
ONCE, BUT THREE TIMES….!!! ON BEHALF OF THEIR BIG AG BIZ DONORS, BOXER AND
FEINSTEIN HAVE PUSHED FOR A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION ILLEGAL FARM
WORKERS…… DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF THESE FARM WORKERS COME TO GROW
ANCHOR BABIES AND COLLECT WELFARE!
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SOMETHING ELSE THE OCCUPIED
LEGALS SHOULD KNOW: ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS (AN OPEN
BORDERS LA RAZA DEM), NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE BY MEXICAN
GANGS!!!
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THE
STATE OF CA OPERATES DEFICITS OF $28 MILLION AND STILL PAYS OUT $20 BILLION IN
SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!
NOT
ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR ANY OF THIS!
BUT
THEN THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA IS DOES NOT INCLUDE LEGALS!
Lloyd Billingsley
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In
California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
Last
year, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California DREAM Act, which makes
students in the country illegally eligible for grants and waivers to attend one
of the state’s public colleges or universities. The students must have attended
school in the state for three years, “affirm that they are in the process of
applying to legalize their immigration status,” and show both financial need
and academic achievement. Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, the Los Angeles Democrat who
authored the DREAM Act, hails the legislation as a victory for those “in the
country through no fault of their own.” Opponents such as Republican assemblyman
Tim Donnelly—a first-term legislator not given to understatement—called
Cedillo’s legislation the “California
Nightmare Act,” said it is “morally
wrong,” and would create “a new
entitlement that is going to cause tens of thousands of people to come here
illegally from all over the world.”
Poster
children for the DREAM Act abound. Mandeep Chahal, for example, was six years
old when her parents brought her to the United States from India. Chahal wants
to be a doctor; her fellow students at Los Altos High School near Palo Alto
voted her the person “Most Likely to Save the World.” That’s a tall order, but
to deny such a person the opportunity seems unreasonable. “Many parents of
these children pay taxes for many services they cannot get,” argues Cedillo.
Cedillo’s
point implies that illegal immigrants are the only ones subject to this
dynamic. But consider: my taxes subsidize the Medi-Cal system, which provides
medical care for low-income state residents, but I couldn’t “get” health care
that way, even in the year my income was so low that my daughter qualified for
a Pell Grant. Likewise, the taxes of, say, a California welder help pay for
top-drawer pensions and benefits for state government
employees, but he can’t enjoy those benefits himself. Neither is he entitled to
get a government job merely because his taxes help pay the salaries and
benefits of workers at the Department of Motor Vehicles, CalTrans, the
California Air Resources Board, the Franchise Tax Board, California’s
Department of Education, the State Board of Equalization, the Coastal
Commission, and on and on.
The
taxes of a fast-food worker help subsidize the University of California at
Berkeley, but nothing guarantees that taxpayer admission to Berkeley. The
state’s Master Plan for Higher Education does
guarantee everyone a place in the system, whether at a community college, a
state university, or within the UC system. But no one is promised a place at
the top, and the system grants no special favors to legal immigrants. When I
came to the United States, legally, in 1977, I had been studying at the
University of Windsor, a four-year school in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario. I
wanted to continue my studies at San Diego State University but was not allowed
to transfer because I hadn’t attended high school in California. SDSU
administrators suggested I try the state’s community college system, which
seemed a step down from what I had in mind. But eventually, I put two children
through San Diego State. They’re now working in productive careers, a tax
burden to no one. No legislation rewards parents for that achievement or for
coming to the United States with proper documents.
Cedillo’s law, by contrast,
rewards those who came to California illegally. Will the law, therefore,
encourage more people to enter the state illegally, as Donnelly and other
critics assert?
(IN FACT THERE ARE MORE THAN
11 MILLION ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE! NOW NEARLY 40% OF CA ARE ILLEGALS,
33% OF NEVADA AND 24% OF COLORADO. MOST
NON LA RAZA PROPAGANDA SOURCES BUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION
AND BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES!)
Recall
how Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986, which gave amnesty to several million undocumented
immigrants. A quarter of a century later, the number of illegal immigrants
stands at 11.5 million. It seems clear
that the 1986 act didn’t discourage foreign nationals from entering the United
States without signing the guest book. One of those who obtained
citizenship under the Act was Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, who made his way
through UC Berkeley and Harvard Medical School and is now associate professor
of neurosurgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore. Quinones-Hinojosa and others who have spoken out in support of the
DREAM Act often give the impression that their cases are typical of illegal
aliens. Not exactly. Amnesty measures, however well-intentioned, usually bring
unintended consequences.
THE REALITY OF LA RAZA’S LOOTING OF CA:
Consider Ignacio Mesa Viera,
subject of a recent front-page story in the Sacramento Bee.
He came to the United States illegally in 1979 to work and help his family, as
he explained, but was convicted on a drug offense in 1995. He was deported but
returned to the United States, whereupon he was busted for another drug offense
in 2008. Before his recent deportation, the U.S. government was paying for
Viera’s kidney dialysis, a treatment that can cost more than $60,000 a year. “I
imagine that the reason they don’t want to let me stay in this country,” Viera
told the Bee, “is they don’t want to be paying for this.”
Cedillo
and his colleagues need to know that everybody’s taxes pay for services they
and their children “cannot get”—including kidney dialysis and other expensive
medical treatments courtesy of the federal government. Meantime, as a University of California report noted last year, tens of
thousands of middle-class, taxpaying legal residents are being squeezed out of
an affordable college education even as the legislature contrives to provide
scholarships for the children of illegal aliens. The lawmakers’ solution is to create yet another
entitlement in the form of a new $1 billion scholarship program for students
whose families earn less than $150,000 a year. Such is life in the Golden
State, even with a DREAM Act in place.
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OBAMA
HAS PROMISED HIS LA RAZA “THE RACE” PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, NO I.D. FOR REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING… OR AT LEAST CONTINUED
NON-ENFORCEMENT!
OBAMA
HANDS MASSIVE WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS TO BUY THE ILLEGALS'
ILLEGAL VOTES!
The
truth about the DREAM Act
Published
March 20, 2012
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The
DREAM Act has become a rallying cry for President Obama, members of his
administration, and liberal Democrats everywhere. President Obama has vowed to
“keep fighting for the DREAM Act,” which would grant amnesty to millions of
illegal immigrants.
It’s
true when listeners or those polled don’t know the facts that the DREAM Act has
some appeal. After all, we are all naturally sympathetic when children are
involved.
But
the descriptions of the DREAM Act voiced by President Obama and his cohorts are
not accurate. And the consequences are never told.
DREAM
Act supporters claim that only children would benefit from such a bill, but the
facts tell another story. Under most DREAM Act proposals, amnesty would be
given to individuals up to the age of 30—not exactly children. And some other
proposals don’t even have an age limit.
These
supporters also maintain that illegal immigrants can’t go college without the
DREAM Act. But the truth is that illegal immigrants can already go to college
in most states.
And
ultimately, most versions of the DREAM Act actually don’t even force illegal
immigrants to comply with all the requirements in the bill, such as going to
college or joining the military. The administration can waive requirements
because of “hardship”at its complete discretion.
DREAM Act proposals are
also a magnet for fraud. Many illegal immigrants will fraudulently claim they
came here as children or that they are under 30. And the federal government has
no way to check whether their claims are true or not.
Such massive fraud occurred after the 1986 amnesty for illegal
immigrants who claimed they were agricultural workers. Studies found two-thirds
of all applications for the 1986 amnesty were fraudulent.
(ANYONE THAT THINKS THERE ARE ONLY 11 MILLION ILLEGALS IN OUR
BORDERS SHOULD COME VISIT CA! LOOK AROUND AND TRY TO FIND A NON-HISPANIC
ENGLISH SPEAKING LEGAL! CA IS NOW 40% ILLEGAL. NEVADA IS NOW 33% ILLEGAL.
COLORADO IS NOW 20% ILLEGAL. AND LA RAZA IS NOW MOVING INTO THE AMERICAN SOUTH)
And
this amnesty did nothing to stop illegal immigration. In 1986, there were about
three million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. Today, there are an
estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and about seven million of
them work here, unfairly taking jobs from unemployed Americans.
While DREAM Act
supporters claim that it would only benefit children, they skip over the fact
that it actually rewards the very illegal immigrant parents who knowingly
violated our laws. Once their children become U.S. citizens, they can petition
for their illegal immigrant parents and adult siblings to be legalized, who
will then bring in others in an endless chain.
This
kind of chain migration only encourages more illegal immigration, as parents
will bring their children to the U.S. in hopes of receiving citizenship.
President Obama tried to
get the DREAM Act passed during a lame duck session about a year ago but it
faced bipartisan opposition in Congress. This hasn’t stopped the administration
from passing its agenda. The Obama administration does everything it can to let
illegal immigrants stay here, which compounds the problem.
Political
appointees at the Department of Homeland
Security recently issued new deportation guidelines that amount to
backdoor amnesty and strike another blow at millions of unemployed U.S.
workers.
Under
the administration’s new deportation policy, DHS officials review all incoming
and most pending cases before an immigration court to determine if the illegal
immigrant can remain in the U.S. Since the administration has made clear that
many illegal immigrants are not considered priorities for removal, including
potential DREAM Act beneficiaries, this could open the door to allow millions
of illegal immigrants to live and work in the U.S. without a vote of Congress.
The Obama administration
has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants
to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal
workers. And the list goes on and on – this administration has a pattern
of ignoring the laws and intent of Congress.
The United States is based on the rule of law but the Obama
administration already has dirty hands by abusing administrative authority to
grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. The DREAM Act doesn’t stop illegal
immigration—it only encourages more of it by rewarding lawbreakers.
Rep.
Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee